Marching Towards Spring Share Cafe

Stacy: that sounds like a great WE, what movie are you going to watch? why kids have to get sick on We when there is no Dr. or nurse.....hope Elim is better

Donna: I forgot to congratulated you for your kids cards, I can imagine how proud you must feel....so how was dinner out?? Where did you went???

I have no plans, this is going to be a long, long weekend studying with S for his unit exams this week....... ..... Math and Social Studies are getting little hard, there are things in Math I don't remember and Social Studies he has to memorize a lot of things, like capital of countries, currencies, and some other words......

So it is going to be a boring long WE............ by the way I don't drink alone, not at home, so the wine thing was just a joke......

hope everyone has a great WE
Lorena

Well, everyone went home from the card party about an hour ago. On Wed I had 20 people RSVP'ed. Today 5, yes 5, actually showed up. Part of me is very angry and hurt and the other part is just glad it's over. I did a ton of work getting ready and I could have just left everything as it was - we all fit around my dining room table

The good news is we are $130 closer to our goal. We broke $500 today, which is good.

Erin Love the pictures! Looks like fun!

Very excited about SU this year I guess everyone will be planning trips with the family around it!

Thinking of kate and Kyle and their family! I look at that sweet boys face every morning and remind my self Live life for today!

Lorena~ My walking earned my 18 pts. last week!! I was the highest point earner for the team last week!! I rewarded myself by getting a pedicure last night with my friend and Ansley! Girls night out!!

Stacy~ Hopefully this med will help Elim's little ears get well before the trip.

As for the work related decisions, I don't have any idea! There is a work session, 2 public meetings, and a regular board meeting this week that we might hear something out of....we'll see.

There's nothing special planned for the weekend here.

Ansley had tennis this morning and did great! I'm so proud to watch her trying something new and giving it all she's got!!

I have a presentation for school due on Tuesday night so I guess the rest of the weekend will be spent working on that.....not all that fun, but one step closer to getting this degree.

Check out the new most rockin' March Shining Star! Goooooo Brooke!!

Hey girlies...Happy Sunday!!!

Sauce is almost done...having Keiths cousins over for Sunday dinner....so much fun. Love them and Maddie loves their girls. God bless them they have a 2 year old and twin 1 year olds...nothing like having your hands full...but they are totally blessed.
Maddies shaking her little booty all over today shes so excited they are coming. Can you say my kiddo is baby happy? lol

Tracy thats so cute that shes doing tennis. Love when they get into an activity. Not crazy just one is good....Maddies in dance and wants to quiet dont think she would be able to do softball or anything else so kind of sad this may be her last year...but in all honesty it is getting a little to fast for her to keep up and I think she knows it. Gotta stop being that pushy mommy and pretending nothing is wrong
Good luck to Ansley....hope shes awesome and loves it!!!

Well gotta go fry the meatballs before they get here...someone please push me off this couch

xoxo
Jessica

Tracy - Yay, for a pedi! You deserve it girl! Hope ya'll get info. soon as to the job status. Hard to think about anything else. Hope it's soon . . .

Lorena - Hope you start charging folks/friends an hourly rate for your awesome legal advice:) Nothing like some cash on the side. You so nice to be doing that for them:)

Stacy - Sorry to hear about your little one. Geez, poor Elim. I hope movie night out was fun!

Liz - Stress plays a major role with the gray hair and hair loss as I am discovering. Urgh. Nice and Easy?

Dawn - I so agree:)

Jessica - Yum, meatballs!

Shannon - I'm sorry that the peeps who originally said they show failed to do so. I hope that you had a good time with those loyal 5 and raised more cash toward your MOD goal! You rock!

Donna - Congrats on those progress reports! Sounds like your party planning is going well too:) So much fun to celebrate!

We're on Spring Break! Well, I've been home since 2/13, but hubby and kids are on break. Road trip! Took the car in yesterday for road trip prep, oil change, rotate tires . . . nothing too major to worry about. We always wonder if this will be the drive where we have to call AAA?! I drive an older car. We both do. Home visit to qualify for services is tomorrow morning . . .

Back from our trip! We found some sun in the midst of all the rain and had a great time... good appointments... no complaints!

Can't wait to catch up!

Holy moly!! Life must have everyone busy this weekend!! I hope it's all good stuff!!!

Today, I rode with my sister to get her son some "boy equipment" for baseball. We had to take both boys with us (age 7 and 4)..... LOOK AT THAT FACE-----nothing fun about the trip. They were W-I-L-D and everything was too funny that makes for a difficult trip. By the time we were back in town, I was ready to get out of the car and walk.

Maybe that was because I missed that hour of sleep last night AND my nap!!!! Just maybe........

Lindsay; good luck with the home visit tomorrow.... I will be thinking and praying for you....... I know what you mean, since my car accident, I have been wondering to get a big car, suburban type, I love Tahoe, to feel safe....... Where are you guys going???

Jessica: that sounds like fun...... I like to cook meatballs..... hope you enjoy the visit.....

Lauren: Glad you had a nice trip and sunny..... and that your appointments were ok, I can picture you in my mind, traveling in plane, like that movie, the descendants......really you travel a lot on planes???

Shannon: so sorry that your guest were so rude and not coming, I read your blog.....all the preparations, though I hope you raise the money....at least they called to apologize???

Tracy: ugh riding in someone else car with their kids is no fun..... hope you could get your nap......great about that pedi, I urgently need one.....

So I should be studying with Stefano, he read on his own then told me to ask him, and he knew all the answers so we are "resting" that kid marvel me with his wonderful memory, hope he remembers in the test...... I am lazy..... I am bored in has been a boring long weekend.....I am super excited for my decoration class, we have to find different textiles and colors for decorating 3 different areas, we chose the colors and the fabrics, is like a palette and I am thinking my areas....... and I have been thinking to re decorate my patio area and garden and my family tv room, I am in love with blue, amazing all you can do with that color..... I was more like traditional neutral colors .... ok I go now......

oh miss V fell from her little bike, S and V were having fun, he was pushing her little bike, and she was happy, until he pushed her so hard and she fell, a big nasty bump on her forehead......

Happy Sunday everyone.....

Lorena

Shannon- Shame on those folks who didn't come to the party! I wanted to go!!

Tracy- Oooh yeah... one less hour of sleep... that stinks... so do boys on trips they don't want to be on sounds like!

Lorena- This month yeah... I will have been on Oahu 1x each week for the past 3 weeks... then one off then back to Oahu again! So sorry about Miss V's lil' noggin' poor thing!

Lindsay- Hope tomorrow goes well... keep him up tonight if ya have to!

Lance and I teamed up and cleaned out the entire fridge... top to bottom... k and Micah helped too. Looks show room! Now to get some food to fill it up with!

Lorena: We went to see Wanderlust, it was pretty funny but there were quite a bit of nudity in it, one of the guys was a nudist.

Shannon: UGH!! That's just crappy of them to RSVP yes and then not show up! Totally disrespectful. I'd probably think about being snotty (because I know I'd never actually do it) and send out thank you cards to everyone that RSVP'd yes to say thank you for making the party such a success by their presence.

Dawn: We most definitely are! Charles will hopefully be back from deployment by then so it'll be a nice welcome back trip for us. I've got some family and friends out in Tampa too so we'll of course have to visit them.

Lindsay: Yay road trip! Hope that your meeting tomorrow goes well and that he shows all of his behaviors.

Lauren: Yay good appointments! Guess the no whammies worked? I did that a couple of weeks ago, it's a mess again, lol.

Elim is finally fever free! The antibiotics are eating at his stomach I think but at least they're attacking the ear infection!

Off to eat my girl scout cupcake mmmm....

Hi chicks.

Fun, fun weekend. Yesterday spent the whole day with Tori. Mommy/Tori time. It was WONDERFUL. Until she puked last night. Again, I felt like, everything I worked so hard for all day filling her up with fat filled foods....totally destroyed by the most obnoxious/loud burp followed by puke all over daddy's recliner.

Some lady at the mall called me a grandma yesterday. jcpenny's looking for Easter dresses....We are at the register with sunglasses and she looks at Tori and says..."Did you and grandma find a pretty dress today?" She was a definite grandma. Ithought to myself...Do I look like an effin grandma? My birthday is in 5 days, will I go from 35 to 65 overnight? Is my hair really that gray? Am I frumpy? Then a whole nother plura of emotions hit me in the car...I'm so fat, that's why she thought I was a gma, my clothes look like gma clothes, i have no make up on, i look like a gma, I have diabetes(I don't) like my gma, omg I'm going to die a young gma from being fat with diabetes, .......I will stop there because it only got worse.

A half hour into my berating, I look inthe rearview at Tori dancing to lady gaga "born this way" and everything was fine. I've never heard this song before, but listened to the words and felt so much better, because let's face it, I was born this way and I'm ok.

Lauren, glad your mini vaca and appointments went well.
Tracy, sorry about your little boy/mall experience.
Lindsay, how'd your inhome go today?
Stacy, YaY for no fever!!
Jessica, Fried meatballs sounds so good...yum!
Lorena, how was your test?

Sugar snaps, I can't remember anything else.

bbl...

Can't.....catch......up......That'll teach me to go missing for a few days!

Shannon - People didn't show up for your party? That stinks. So rude.

Stacy - Yay for fever-free!!!

Tracy- Taking boys anywhere..ugh. Good job on the walking!

Lorena - Good luck with testing week. I'll be thinking of you and S. Oh, we took the kids to their favorite Italian restaurant (Bruno's) to celebrate their report cards.

Liz - Hugs. You don't look like a grandma. And I love that song! Hope Tori is feeling better.

Jessica - Fried meatballs? Will you share that recipe, please?

Oy - Busy weekend, somewhat. Grace's basketball team lost by one point Saturday morning, but the last four minutes were so exciting! Ryley's baseball team won their first game 9-6 and for you non-fb'ers, HE HIT AN INSIDE THE PARK HOME RUN!!!!!! I'm still beaming with pride. He had such a good game. And then, crash, he woke up yesterday with an awful fever and headache. He was totally down all day. Fever broke during the night last night, but I have him home from school today just to be safe. He says he still has a bit of a headache. I did get to go shopping yesterday afternoon to get ready for our New Orleans trip this weekend. Yippee!!!

Liz~ Really?? Gma???? Not hardly! If you look like a gma...what do I look like???

Donna~ Yay for R's great game!! (and thanks for thinking of us non-FBer's!!)

Today started off beautiful and the temps were great too.....then a nasty drizzle moved in. Not at all pleased with that! Messed up my walking schedule.

I tried doing a dvd that I just bought and thought I was dying. I will take breaks through a dvd if needed, but never turn them off, but this one.....I had to turn it off----I'll try again tomorrow.

Tracy - Sorry for that long car trip with two roudy boys. We're so doing that tomorrow too, but I am used to it:) I hope that you were able to catch up on some much needed z's.

Donna - Congrats to R on the homerun! That's awesome!!!

Liz- No, you don't look like a grandma. I can't believe that lady said that! I'm glad that song came on when it did. Must have been really cute to see her grooving to the music:) I'm sorry that T got sick. Did you Febreeze the recliner? Always looking for more products to get out the nastiness.

Lauren - I'm so glad that your appointments have been uneventful. Are you racking up more frequent flyer miles?

Erin - Your girls are so cute! Looks like you are having a good time on the beach:)

Lorena - Glad to hear that S's studies are going well. I'm sorry for Miss V's bump on her forehead. Your decorating class sounds like it's coming along. I love hues of blues too - reminds me of Greek isles or Provence . . .

Okay, home visit today was just for DDD, not ALTCS. Huh? Our support coordinator didn't really explain well. So, anyway this one was no biggie and went well. Tristyn came out so say hello and then just kept running back and forth. So, I called over to ALTCS and we did a phone interview to cover the financial eligibility part. I'll get more paperwork soon and then finally, we schedule the home visit. Seriously, he'll be lucky if we can even start services by June. I'm so glad that we start Jumpstart tomorrow so that I can at least start there and connect with some other parents. There is a organization called Kids With Autism Can and there are free activities for families with kids on the spectrum. Hoping to connect with even more families ooon.

Tracy - Bummer on not getting your walk in. And at least you tried with the video.

Lindsay - Hrrrmmmmm......communication from coordinators is key. It is SUCH a long process.

Liz: I've got no idea what she was talking about because you didn't even look close to being grandma age to me when I saw you!

Donna: WOOHOO RYLEY!!! That's awesome! I hope he feels better soon, poor guy.

Tracy: Boo on the cold drizzle! Hopefully our nice weather will make it's way to you in the next day or so.

Lindsay: Glad that the visit went well! Ugh, always the hurry up and wait to get things.

Spoke too soon, Elim's fever is back, dangit! We go in on Wednesday unless it disappears between now and then. Could go in tomorrow but I want him seen by his doctor so we can make a plan instead of the other doctor. She's nice and all, just not his. He's also a little more cuddly today in between being irritable.

Stacy - Poor baby. He's not catching a break these days, is he? I'd rather see our doctor too when we have something going on. Wishing you both fever-free days.

Stacy- Egads! Poor lil' dude!

Lindsay- Urgh, nothin' like getting all prepped for one kind of meeting only to find it's another!

Donna- What a proud mommy moment! Go R!! He must have been on cloud 9 too!

Liz- That woman needs glasses.

Tracy- Reframe... drizzle makes for good nap weather?

Big news around here... Micah went doo doo in the potty all by himself! We were cruisin' doin' our own things and he came to tell me he made doo doo and sure enough he did! Big dude!

Lauren - Doing the happy doo doo in the potty dance for ya!! That's so huge! Yay Micah!!

Yeah, Ryley is still coming down from that high in spite of the fact he was totally sick yesterday. That darned random fever came back yesterday. Stuck at 101 +/- all day long, with ibuprofen. He's fine today but geez.

Aw man, that stinks! Poor kiddo! Glad it's not dampening his mood or joy though!

Lauren-That's awesome, go Micah!!!!

Liz-Ummm.grandma, not so much!

Lindsay-I hope that they are able to get their communication together!

Donna-Go Ryley!!!!

I am just flying by, super busy right now. It is the end of the quarter, so I am the most important person at the school right now, as I pull all the missing work for kids to get it done! I saw over 60 kids today and am booked for the rest of the week with students!

Liz - I'm thinking that grandma who called you grandma 1) is so old she can't see 2) may possibly be senile and 3) might need to be slapped. That is all.

Donna - That's so awesome about Ryley's home run. I imagine any momma would be proud, but after all you've been through, it's extra special. I hope he's feeling better.

Lauren - Congrats on your "big" little boy! It must be bitter sweet seeing him grow so quickly.

Lindsay - I don't know how you keep all the acronyms straight! You do such a great job making all of the connections you need to make with other families and services. Your sons are lucky to have such an ambitious mom!

Stacy - What in the world?! I wish Elim would get better and stay better. You must be so stressed out!

Tracy - I hope spring sunshine finds you soon. It's been warm here. Sunny yesterday. I am LOVING the over 60 weather. Can't wait to get into the garden, but that's still a ways off.

I sent messages to all of the no-shows saying we missed them and I'd saved a card kit for them. I really hope that they at least make a contribution because the prep work for the cards alone was a ton of work! I'm about done with this because I have to start prepping for the yard sale in April. It's on the same day as the first meeting for the community garden that I belong to, so I hope I can get someone to sit at the sale while I go to the meeting. It's the first one of the season, so I feel like I should be there. I don't understand how I'm still so busy!

Shannon - lol on the grandma-callin comments. I'm sitting here giggling. I would totally email those people. You did so much work and for them to just not show..Ugh!!

Katie - Oy!! Miss ya! Oh, expect a text from Cafe du Monde Friday or Saturday.

Note to self....don't attempt to make french bread and chili while trying to get two kids two different places and deal with a gusher of a nosebleed in the youngest kid. YIKES!!

Donna-You better eat a beignet for me!!!!!!!!!!!! I am so jealous!

Make sure to order your 31 stuff from Kate St. Clair! Super cute new stuff!

Stacy~ Ugh on the nasties invading Elim.....again!

Donna~ Hope that Ry is feeling better now.

Lauren~ Woot! Woot! Poo in the pot is a great thing!!! That little man is growing up way too fast!!

Anyone watching "The Bachelor" this time??? This has been a unique season to say the least..... I don't pay as close attention as usual, but am watching the finale tonight. I have my pick!!

Katie - no worries. Pretty sure eating an extra beignet won't be a problem.

Tracy - Nope, no Bachelor. Heard there was yet another crazy chick this season. I liked Ben but not interested. And Ry is feeling much better. Yay!!

Tracy: Is that Jillian Michael's DVD???? I am doing that of 6 weeks, but there is a part I can even do the exercise properly, not even keep my balance.......

Lindsay: that is right.....Provenze and marine style..... so fresh yes it is coming along, I am planning to take also landscaping and gardening, I am getting obsess with orchids....... Glad Tristyn behave *naughty*...... urgh sorry for the paper work....... Great he is starting tomorrow his new school and wow for that organization.... I don't know those acronyms.......

Katie: 60 kids...... ugh just to hear for that I am tire, and I thought that I had a crazy Monday, yours wins......

Stacy: ooh poor dear Elim, hope he really feels better soon..... what is wrong with the medicine?? Maybe you need a specialist or a second opinion??? I am sure I would not trust that ped.......

Donna: yeah for the homerun and mmmm for Italian restaurant....(diet here)....... I am still wondering how you do all those things, really?? French bread???

Shannon: I had to LOL about slapping that poor crazy gradma.... Great that you send the notes, hope they give their contributions and more for not coming, I should have say to them that since they didn't show the contribution is higher as penalty.......

Liz: ugh I hate those silly comments...... once a stupid mom in school asked if my DH cousin (who is almost my age) was my daughter......... because we look alike (not in any single way).......

Lauren: hahahha.... I laughed about your choice of words..... Congrats Micah !!

Well studying, studying...... awful WE, but my kid is so smart (sorry a proud momma here), memorized all so fast, just to get out to play...... so we finish grammar and spelling in Spanish, tomorrow we will study Math, really I need to google a lot of things, I don't even know them......
Poor miss V she has a horrible purple bruise in her forehead..... today that I took her to school all moms gave me that concern (and get more responsible) look......

I have to run to prepare dinner...... oohh Donna that chilli just sound delicious.......temptation.....

Happy Monday (If that could ever be possible)

Lorena

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